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Cohort Analysis’ Unholy Quest: A Discussion

Author: Stephen E. Fienberg

Published in: Demography | Issue 6/2013

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I am pleased to be able to join in the discussion of the article by Luo (in this issue) on age, period, and cohort (APC) modeling in demographic research. Demographers have had a long fascination with various forms of accounting frameworks, and thus APC modeling was a natural topic for the demographic literature. …

previous article Comment on “Assessing Validity and Application Scope of the Intrinsic Estimator Approach to the Age-Period-Cohort (APC) Problem”

next article Paradigm Shift in Age-Period-Cohort Analysis: A Response to Yang and Land, O’Brien, Held and Riebler, and Fienberg

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Title: Cohort Analysis’ Unholy Quest: A Discussion
Author: Stephen E. Fienberg
Publication date: 01-12-2013
Publisher: Springer US
Published in: Demography / Issue 6/2013
Print ISSN: 0070-3370
Electronic ISSN: 1533-7790
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s13524-013-0251-z

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